Day 6

The main reason for going on this trip was to be part of Andreas and Karins sons Christening.

Andreas, Karin and Elias

Isak sat still through most of the service but was a bit loud at times. For example when he thought he saw an ant on the floor and starting shouting: Mummuy ant, mummy ant!! and had to get down and try to find what he thought was an ant.

Jakob is old enough now to understand that he has to sit still but at the end he had "ants in his pants" and we let him and Isak go to a playroom close by.

Jakob helped pouring up the water and I held Elias in the beginning. Isak also wanted to be part of it all and sat down next to us cuddling his doll.

After the church we all went to Karin's parents place for a yummy lunch. Jakob, Isak and another girls played hard all day long.

Elias together with parents and grandparents.

Isak looked so cute in his new outfit! In the morning stress before going to church I decided to give the kids a haircut. I made a big mistake with Isak and cut his sides far too much....

The kids wanting to be in the middle of opening presents!

And Elias was happy all day, what a calm little baby he is!

When back at the caravan park Jakob was dying to play minigolf. I played 18 holes with him and I have to say he is getting really good! Straight after he started talking to a couple who was just about to start playing and don't ask me how, but all of a sudden Jakob was a part of their game and they took notes of his score as well. He ended up playing another 18 holes with them and after they gave him an ice cream.

Tired boy at the end of the day about to watch a dvd in bed.

Day 5

Last Saturday I had organised for me and Jakob (mum stayed at the caravan park with Isak) to visit Susanna and Ayisha who live just about 30min drive from where we were. Susanna and I became good friends in Adelaide when she lived there for a few years with her husband who was Australian. Susanna also gave birth to her daughter Aysiha during that time and I haven't seen them since they moved from Adelaide about 6 years ago.

Ayisha is now nearly 7 and very cute!

Jakob and Ayisha played together the whole day!

In the car on the way down to Uddevalla Jakob noticed that he was about to lose a tooth! he was really excited and the new tooth had already started coming up behind the other one. On Saturday night, when he was about to go to bed, it finally came off! Jakob was very happy and proud!

Day 4

Day 4 was cloudy and a bit rainy so we just took it easy around the cabin during the day and went for a drive to Lysekil in the afternoon.

Day 3

After a good sleep we had breakfast at the hotel before hitting the road again.

The one and only stop day 3 before reaching the final destination!

After getting organised at the caravan park and doing some grocery shopping we went to Karins parents for dinner. They lived just 10 minutes walk from where we were staying in a really nice spot with ocean view!

Jakob and Isak were very interested in little Elias and they bothe wanted to hold him. Isak tried to take him from Jakob saying: My baby, my baby!

Finally!

Day 2

Day 2 we spent at the animal/fum park.

Jakob and Isak got to pat goats and sheep.

But liked climbing on rocks even better...

The highlight according to Jakob was little boats that took us around a small track in the water. We did it two times and Jakob could have kept going.

Another fun thing that we didn't know before we got there, was that the kids tv program Wild kids is filmed here on a small island. Jakob loves that show, where to teams with children compete against each other.

Balancing on a log when the other team is trying to push you down with sand bags...

Sometimes Jakob takes care of Isak reall well. Sometimes he doesn't.

After a day in the park we got in to the car, drove around 350 kilometers to Örebro where we had booked a hotel room for the night. Since the kids were not at all tired (they both had a late sleep in the car) and it was 25 degrees in the evening, we went to a really nice park/playground and had take away pizza on the grass. Very nice.

Jakob makes friends wherever he goes, here he is playing soccer with a dad and his 3 boys.

Isak starting to get tired... and also his mum...

Car trip Day 1!

Last Tuesday we started our long drive from Luleå down to Uddevalla. The kids had packed their bags the night before and the car was packed before we went to bed. At 6 am, after putting the kids in the car straight from bed in their pj:s, we picked up mum in the city. Zara, Finn and Lykke left at the same time with the plan to try to stick close together down to Gävle where we were all going to spend the night.

We did over 2 hours before stopping to change the kids and have breakfast. Isak puked 2 times and Jakob complaind over pain in his belly, but apart from that we had a good start.

Beautiful sunny morning along the E4.

After breakfast both kids had a sleep in the car and not long after we had lunch at the bottom of Skuleberget. Plenty of space for the kids to run around.

Jakob and Isak preferred Zaras food...

The children really wanted to climb the mountain but knowing how far we had to drive I didn't think it was a good idea. I took them up a little bit though hoping that it would be nicer for them to sit in the car with tired legs.

Zara did the drive all by herself - very impressive!

Stop number 3

In the late afternoon, after having done about 750 kilometers, we arrived at Furuvik where we spent the night in a small but cosy little cabin. The kids were amazing in the car, I have nothing to complain about!

When mum got dinner organised I took the kids for a walk around the caravan park.

And stopped at the playground...

Dinner in the sun!

Cute Isak!

Jakob and I doing one of many rounds of mini golf!

At the end of the day Jakob and Isak lost the plot a bit (being very tired I think) and ran around like crazy when mum did the dishes. We all fell asleep very quickly that night after a good first day!